Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
*by shadow market, meaning, things lessening the status of the Dollar as the reserve currency. And Donald doesn't understand why that's important for the USA, nor do any of the rogues gallery of Morans he's appointed for anything. He runs the presidency for him, and only him, and this is the result
he was already crashing it, this is just faster -- the Iran sanctions over the years have created a shadow market for oil, anyways, and his appointing the least qualified people for, Treasury, SEC, Inspector generals, makes no one trust the USA will honor it's contracts anymore-- all for what?
Donald Could Crash the Dollar
Taiwan is facing fears of a plastic bag shortage amid a significant price hike for plastic goods, driven primarily by surging oil prices and disruptions in the global petrochemical supply chain owing to the prolonged conflict in the Middle East. www.straitstimes.com/asia/plastic...
Boots on the Groundhog Day
The British military says a cargo vessel was attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, damaging containers on board. The attack is the second on Saturday, after two gunboats from Iran’s Revelatory Guards opened fire on a tanker transiting the key waterway.
Notice how we just get this detail w/no explanation how this happened if, as Whiskey Pete and Donald Trump have claimed over and over, Iran's entire military was sunk?
It's not even a drone or a fishing boat, at least as described.
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The rise of the shadow docket in 2016 was followed in 2017 by another procedural trick from the Roberts Court, known as "Munsingwear vacatur," which they weaponized to wipe out progressive precedent without having to explain why. Profs. Lisa Tucker (my wife) and Michael Risch (he's not) explain. 1/2
I can see Thomas and Alito using this to justify stealing the election.
Trump's DOJ just asked for probation for someone who committed three identity thefts.
For 24 hours over Easter weekend, Trump’s team dialed into the Situation Room: Vice President JD Vance from Camp David, Wiles from her home in Florida. They received almost minute-by-minute progress reports, of the military entering Iran, the rescue planes getting stuck in the sand, the efforts to distract the Iranians. They called the last airman by a code name. Trump wasn’t included in the meeting but received updates by phone.
10¶¶ later, WSJ seems to reveal that Trump was too lazy to go from the residence to the Situation Room to monitor the rescue of an airman.
This was the weekend people THOUGHT he was having a health crisis.
Was he?
The strait has been a particular source of frustration. Before the U.S. went to war, Trump told his team that Iran’s government would likely capitulate before closing the strait, and that even if Tehran tried, the U.S. military could handle it, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Some of the president’s advisers were caught off guard that tanker traffic would grind to a halt so quickly after the bombing began, according to a person in contact with the White House. Trump has since marveled at the ease with which the strait was closed. A guy with a drone can shut it down, Trump has said to people, expressing belated irritation that the key waterway was so vulnerable. He has publicly oscillated between demanding support from allies to help open it and insisting that the U.S. doesn’t need or want military assistance.
These two ¶¶ more than 35 ¶¶ into an adventure in sanewashing would be the entire story if reporters cared about accountability for Trump.
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Trump was warned abt Strait.
He ignored those warnings.
Now he confesses he was wrong.
Compare this to the 5 years the guy who stole from the IRS got, and Trump's efforts to turn that into a $10B payday.
So this is what prompted Melania to make that bizarre speech.
What’s incredible is that Ungaro’s tweets didn’t mention Epstein or claim Melania met Trump through Epstein, just that she had damaging info. So why did Melania leap to that the next day?
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Amazing summary.
Kudos to @emptywheel.bsky.social for pulling these documents and assembling this.
Huh. Why would they ask for Wayne's ballots rather than the counties where Trump's people committed crimes in 2020?
🤔
One reason that we cannot have professional diplomats representing the interests of the United States is that it would disrupt a pattern of personal enrichment for the Presidents allies and families.
Except they still depict him as a functional actor here.
If this were anyone else it'd be a 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 story about how the President can't or won't focus on the war he started, which narrative might force the GOP to do something about it.
It’s a mark of how completely normalised the corruption & depravity have become that we barely bat an eyelid at the thought of two *property developers*, one Trump’s nepo baby son-in-law, being sent to represent the USA in peace negotiations with Iran. Sometimes it all hits you afresh.
ALAMO, Tex. — President Trump emerged Tuesday from six days out of public view defiant and unapologetic about his incitement of last week's mob attack on the Capitol and warned that his impeachment could lead to more violence. The president denied any culpability in the violent riot that killed a police officer and threatened the lives of Vice President Pence and members of Congress. He said his remarks encouraging throngs of supporters last Wednesday to march to the Capitol in a show of force to pressure and intimidate lawmakers to overturn the election results were “totally appropriate.” President Trump visits the U.S.-Mexico border wall, in Alamo, Tex., on Jan. 12, 2021. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) During a visit to a portion of newly constructed border wall here in the Rio Grande Valley, Trump warned against the effort in Congress to hold him accountable. “The impeachment hoax is a continuation of the greatest and most vicious witch hunt in the history of our country and is causing tremendous anger and division and pain, far greater than most people will ever understand, which is very dangerous for the U.S.A., especially at this very tender time,” Trump said.
Those talking abt WSJ post abt Trump might find this post fr Josh Dawsey, one of the first beginning to assess Trump's insane comments during January 6 (and also describing Trump trying to build stuff).
This is how dangerous insanity got managed Last Time.
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Again, it's not just that it is targeting MI, but Harmeet is targeting Wayne (Detroit and Dearborn) and not Oakland or Antrim, where there were criminal shenanigans by Trumpsters in 2020 or Washtenaw, where a non-citizen did unwittingly vote in 2024 (but got prosecuted after the fact).
It is likely that Trump's Iran catastrophe will lead to some kind of compensation for all the countries the US has screwed (which is all of them). We would do well now to lay groundwork for seizing assets of the Palantirs and Musk fortune that enabled Trump's rise and invasion.
Looking for crime in the US must be such a tough job... 🙄
”….and the. I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid……”
Clears it up a lot.
"In the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes."
Me on Saturday's @nytimes.com scoop in today's "One First":
In a nutshell. 😊
Of COURSE he's insider trading. He's a crook, he's ALWAYS been a crook, he's using the presidency to make billions.
He ran to stay out of jail, to make money and to feel powerful, because that's what a narcissist like him gets off on. It was never about helping people.
🚨 IRANIAN CARGO SHIP SEIZED
The description – The ship failed to stop & US forces fired to disable the engine room – is a standard escalation measure for VBSS (Visit Board Search & Seizure) operations.
If it's disabled in the location below, that creates a security headache until it can be moved.
